TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aileen Behrendt
AU  - Nicholas Courtman
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-1304
SN  - 9783631857533
TI  - Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe
T2  - Representation, Contestation, Critique
DO  - 10.3726/b18541
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1137111
N2  - This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these questions in different social and historical contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributions confront the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments, the (in)visibility of certain labour groups, and the implications of the body as a productive site.
KW  - Work, capitalism, comparative literature, contemporary literature, critical theory
LA  - English
ER  -